January 11, 2026 Sunday

Greetings!  

This will be very short...for me--lol! Iritis plus corneal edema has remained about the same all week.  If I try to read or type too much or even watch something where I need to pay close visual attention then the headache, pain, and endless watering gets set off...often until I sleep/nap for a while and rest the eye.  A sunny day is not welcome for the first time--lol!  BUT--I bought a new neck pillow for sleeping in my chair and it came with one of those cheap, flat eye masks that are always too small for my head and have velcro on the straps that pulls my hair out.  I was about to toss it out when it occurred to me that I might be able to cut out a makeshift eye patch to slip behind my glasses.  Yes!  It does often press on my eye (hurts) but it does block out the light so the watering will slow down--tada!  I must look pretty funny, but it's something I can use to help over those eye-waterfall hours if I want to stay awake--lol!

I am kind of half watching/mostly listening to various series where I already know all the characters and it is not a fast-moving type of visual show.  I am pretty well caught up, I think, on all the new seasons of shows I am familiar with.  I will gladly rewatch Vera or some Agatha Christie movies or something like that.    :)

I have managed to do laundry, very slowly put together a crock pot of cabbage soup without cutting myself, and even changed the shower curtain finally.  

But I don't want to try climbing on the step stool again as I am still wobbly and my depth perception is poor.  Example: imagine putting the cap on a pen and missing the pen entirely.  (Hence my being quite ridiculously proud of myself for chopping up a cabbage and an onion and not cutting myself!)

I moved around Allie's beds again.  Put her bigger bed up on the dresser.

So funny!  Sometimes I can only see the tips of her ears.  If she curls her head upsidedown I can't see her at all from my chair.

That has been my week.  Still reading what I can of all your blogs.  (Sorry, occasionally the print is too thin and light colored for me to read even with enlarging.)  Still not commenting on blogs or writing letters yet.  But I am so very grateful for every comment and email and letter I have received!  Especially in such a stressful shocking time in my home state of Minnesota.  The cruelty and indifference this past year shakes me to my core.  Hatred, murders, bombings, kidnappings...just seems to be increasing and spreading like a cancer.  Maybe that adds to why I can't stop the tears from flowing down my cheek... 

Had to stop for a while.  

This week I go see the eye specialist on Thursday to see how my eye is progressing.  I'm hoping she will be able to see some healing inside my eye that I can't notice that much myself--lol!  Afterwards I have to stop and get bloodwork done for my CT scans the following week.  

I am grateful to be moved--unpacked or not--settled in or not.  The boys brought down more of their pottery to show me yesterday when they got home.  They are improving every time.  Again, Ian left his in a bag here for the eventual display shelf in the studio and Liam took his back with him.  Ian hung around to chat for a while.  I like seeing them all more.  :)  

I have lots of soup to eat.  Dagan and Leah made me up some hamburger patties (do love my cheeseburgers) and some chicken (even cubed it up for me).  Allie is loving her new viewpoint of the world and her independence.  I am sooooo grateful for streaming on the internet.  (Am grateful for the internet in general--even if I can't use it as much as I had been previously for all the things--lol!)   Even grateful for cloudy days these days--LOL!  And I am soooo grateful for you!  Till next week...